Suzanne Santo is a multi-instrumentalist with a soulful & sultry sound, and some sad songs. She's excellent. Good range, awesome control, fine playmanship... way beyond the alt-country that drew me to her initially. I'd missed a couple solo albums, which are excellent, till recently. She last dropped Yard Sale and has been booked for a number of good live studio sessions with good sound where she played songs from this album... click through the album cover for the playlist. YouTube will give you official audios or official videos via this scheme. I'll provide some live versions later. Bad Beast is money... channeling some serious blues.
Here are the very recent live studio sessions on YouTube of Suzanne Santo... including Joe Rogan's show where she did unusual previously unrecorded stuff, and at the spectacular Audiotree.
- Suzanne Santo @ Paste NYC 10Aug20
- Suzanne Santo @ Audiotree 03Oct17
- Suzanne Santo @ Sofar NYC Best Out Of Me 24Aug17
Prior to all that she was part of the alt-country/Americana duo HoneyHoney, which was also awesome - primarily due to her lead vocals and multi-instrumentalism. If you were watching her recent stuff you see & hear her solo shows don't "allow" a lot of alternative instruments ~ she has to play guitar to match the range of the songs. In HoneyHoney she played fiddle, banjo, guitar, whatever she wanted. They were very good, but, starting in 2017, she had to break out, and her more recent stuff is better, despite it "disenabling" the cool instrumentation. Still, worth a look back for sure...
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